Work of Forgetting Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible?

This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century.

A propos de l'auteur

Stephane Symons is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Walter Benjamin: Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend (2013) and More than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art (2017), editor of The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics (2015) and co-editor of Walter Benjamin and Theology (2015).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Symons Stephane, Stephane Symons
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 31.10.2021
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée
• EAN: 9781538158272
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5827-2
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Thème: Philosophical Projections
• Catégories: Nietzsche, Literature, Literary Studies, Benjamin, Freud, History of Ideas, Aesthetics, Phenomenology, Heidegger, Deleuze, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Arendt, Critical Theory, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Continental Philosophy, Art Theory, Psychoanalyis